.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 299 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 -173 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 545 385 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.00% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.43% 5.01% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 516 327 1,791
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,495 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% -12.31%
75th Percentile £71,376 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% +13.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,476 7,677 17,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.19% 19.84% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,235 14,276
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -24 134 £55,000 -8.33% 51
South East +26 104 £57,500 +15.00% 45
London -83 85 £85,000 +6.25% 44
Midlands +1 80 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England +41 72 £67,500 +22.73% 18
North West +11 72 £55,000 -8.33% 28
South West -17 64 £50,000 -18.37% 10
East Midlands +8 43 £55,000 +4.76% 12
North East -13 41 £65,000 +44.44% 9
West Midlands -26 37 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Yorkshire -57 21 £55,000 -8.33% 15
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.65%) IIS
3 4 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
1 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 381 (69.91%) Azure
2 118 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (16.15%) AWS
4 67 (12.29%) GitHub
5 53 (9.72%) Azure AI
6 49 (8.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 49 (8.99%) SaaS
7 48 (8.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 43 (7.89%) Serverless
9 41 (7.52%) Power Platform
10 30 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 24 (4.40%) Azure Functions
11 24 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (4.40%) Power Automate
11 24 (4.40%) PowerApps
12 22 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (3.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.49%) OneDrive
15 18 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.49%) Internet
2 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.55%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) AMQP
4 1 (0.18%) Modbus
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (35.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 149 (27.34%) SQL Server
3 141 (25.87%) MongoDB
4 52 (9.54%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (6.42%) Power BI
6 21 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.57%) MySQL
7 14 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.28%) Redis
9 6 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.92%) GIS
11 4 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.79%) Git
2 7 (1.28%) GitLab
3 6 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.92%) JIRA
4 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.55%) Vite
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.37%) MSTest
6 2 (0.37%) NUnit
6 2 (0.37%) webpack
7 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (14.68%) Finance
2 52 (9.54%) Social Skills
3 23 (4.22%) Games
4 19 (3.49%) Advertising
5 17 (3.12%) Banking
5 17 (3.12%) Retail
6 13 (2.39%) Marketing
7 11 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.65%) Automotive
8 9 (1.65%) Front Office
9 8 (1.47%) Law
10 6 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.10%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.92%) Legal
11 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.73%) Back Office
12 4 (0.73%) Electronics
12 4 (0.73%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (76.88%) Developer
2 269 (49.36%) .NET Developer
3 111 (20.37%) Senior
4 109 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 67 (12.29%) C# Developer
6 65 (11.93%) Senior Developer
7 56 (10.28%) C# .NET Developer
8 49 (8.99%) Lead
8 49 (8.99%) Software Engineer
9 48 (8.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (5.69%) Senior Software Developer
11 29 (5.32%) .NET Software Developer
12 28 (5.14%) Lead Developer
13 26 (4.77%) .NET Software Engineer
14 25 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (4.04%) C# Software Developer
15 22 (4.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 21 (3.85%) Azure Developer
16 21 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
17 19 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (100.00%) .NET
2 253 (46.42%) ASP.NET
3 186 (34.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 130 (23.85%) React
5 118 (21.65%) HTML
6 117 (21.47%) CSS
7 111 (20.37%) Entity Framework
8 104 (19.08%) Blazor
9 100 (18.35%) RESTful
10 97 (17.80%) .NET Framework
11 88 (16.15%) Vue
12 81 (14.86%) AngularJS
13 77 (14.13%) ASP.NET Web API
14 70 (12.84%) Node.js
15 53 (9.72%) ML.NET
16 47 (8.62%) LINQ
17 42 (7.71%) REST
18 38 (6.97%) JSON
19 21 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
20 19 (3.49%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.71%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (4.22%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (2.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.20%) Hedge funds
5 12 (2.20%) Sports Betting
6 10 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.65%) Digital TV
8 8 (1.47%) iPhone
8 8 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.47%) Social Network
9 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.10%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.10%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.73%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.39%) VMS
2 8 (1.47%) Android
2 8 (1.47%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (50.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 224 (41.10%) Agile
3 163 (29.91%) CI/CD
4 150 (27.52%) DevOps
5 104 (19.08%) Microservices
6 96 (17.61%) Software Engineering
7 73 (13.39%) AI
7 73 (13.39%) Machine Learning
8 67 (12.29%) Multithreading
9 54 (9.91%) OO
9 54 (9.91%) SDLC
10 53 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (9.36%) Containerisation
12 46 (8.44%) MVC
13 44 (8.07%) User Experience
14 42 (7.71%) Analytics
15 40 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (6.79%) Clean Code
17 35 (6.42%) TDD
18 34 (6.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 497 (91.19%) C#
2 300 (55.05%) SQL
3 157 (28.81%) JavaScript
4 118 (21.65%) TypeScript
5 38 (6.97%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.49%) Python
7 12 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (1.65%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.92%) Bash
10 4 (0.73%) Bicep
10 4 (0.73%) Java
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
11 3 (0.55%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) F#
12 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 38 (6.97%) Degree
2 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.28%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.30%) QA
2 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.37%) GDPR
3 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.37%) ITGC
3 2 (0.37%) SLA
4 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 120 (22.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 107 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 262 (48.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.49%) Adobe
2 19 (3.49%) Google
3 17 (3.12%) Facebook
4 8 (1.47%) YouTube
5 5 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (0.73%) Apple
6 4 (0.73%) Sony
6 4 (0.73%) Workday
6 4 (0.73%) Yahoo!
7 3 (0.55%) Splunk
8 2 (0.37%) Foundry
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle
8 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.18%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.18%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.18%) Reuters
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.18%) WooCommerce